The Bet (SF9 DaBin) ~ Book 1

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"Seokwoo hyung what happened between you and Juho hyung?" Chanhee asked after lunch, being the curios one now for once.
"Nothing. Why do you think something happened?" Seokwoo nervously asked, trying to pretend everything was fine in front of the younger.
"I'm not stupid. You both obviously cried and seeing Juho hyung clinging onto Inseong hyung like that only confirmed that something must have happened."
"We were just talking about some things."
"Why were you both crying then? You are best friends and given everything he's done for me I can't stand seeing Juho hyung like that. He seemed like he would start crying every second, so what's wrong?" the younger questioned, raising one eyebrow at his boyfriend.
"He just told me that he fell in love with someone who's in a relationship already" Seokwoo mumbled, feeling bad for just blurting this out like that.
"That's why you were crying too?"
"He's my best friend and I get sad when he's sad."
"Fine if you say so. You're his best friend so you better make sure to take better care of him. He doesn't deserve to be treated like that. I get that you want to spend time with me but you rarely ever spend time with him ever since we started dating. You should know better than I that he's way more emotional and sensitive than he pretends to be so don't just abandon him like that."
"Have you both formed an alliance behind my back? Shouldn't you be happy that I want to spend so much time with you?" Seokwoo asked, a bit hurt by his boyfriends words.
"Just because we're dating doesn't mean we have to see each other 24 hours every day. I have other friends too and so do you. Juho is your best friend and he deserves to be treated like that. After these past months I'm surprised he still is your best friend."
"What do you mean?" the older asked confused, not knowing why he had to be confronted like this by everyone.
"You completely ignored him while you were trying everything with me. Honestly we wouldn't be together without Juho hyung" Chanhee blurted out, realizing that he just betrayed Juho. After all he promised him to never tell Seokwoo that he was helping him.
"Chanhee what are you talking about?"
"I would have never approached you if Juho hyung wouldn't have helped me. He told me that you like me, he encouraged me to embrace the feelings I had for you and and to make me confess to you. Juho hyung was the one who helped me figure out what I truly felt and that it's nothing to be scared or ashamed of. I feel so sorry that he lost his best friend because of me, I really want to make it up to him but I don't know how."
"Juho helped you to confess to me? Did he tell you what to say?" Seokwoo asked, figuring out that everything slowly started to make sense.
"Yes he did. I still don't know why he knew exactly what to say to you" Chanhee shrugged, noticing Seokwoo's shocked look.
"So it was him confessing" Seokwoo mumbled to himself, feeling his stomach churn as he thought back to Chanhee's confession.
"Hyung is everything alright?" Chanhee asked as he saw how lost in thoughts his boyfriend was.
"Yes I just realized I forgot something. I'll meet you after school" Seokwoo said before running off to his classroom, sitting down and waiting for the older.
He was nervous and he needed to make sure he wouldn't lose his best friend, especially not after he was the one he had to thank for his relationship. He always knew that Juho always put other's first but he never realized that he would even do it when it came to love, completely ignoring his own feelings just so he and Chanhee could be happy. The moment he saw the older walking in he started feeling incredibly nervous, not knowing what exactly to say after knowing the whole truth. He
"Juho can we please go back to how it was before?" Seokwoo asked as soon as Juho sat down, nervously biting his lip.
"Just forget everything we talked about please."
"How can I? I just feel bad whenever I'm around Chanhee now. I feel like hurting you."
"Seriously Seokwoo just forget it or else we can never go back to being best friends" the older sighed, noticing his shocked expression as he felt that he was getting teary eyed again.
"You won't leave me, right?" Seokwoo asked timidly, not being able to look away from his best friend. It felt like ages to him until he received an answer.
"No Seokwoo of course I won't leave you" Juho sighed, making Seokwoo let out a relieved breath.
"I'm really sorry for ignoring you so much these past months."
"Seokwoo I said forget it" the older sighed once again, trying his hardest not to tell him how sorry he truly was and what he had to do in order to make it up to him. For now, Seokwoo figured out, it would be the best to make sure he's happy and be with him whenever he needed him.

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Argh my lovely Zuwoon. I feel so sad writing this 🥺